PeriscopeFilm curates and preserves historical and military footage, including WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Cold War subjects, as well as stock footage in HD, 2K, and 4K. The channel acts as a stock footage resource with educational and archival clips, often serving museums and broadcast clients, and uploads a large volume of content (around 10,000 videos) with a current subscriber base of 876K and total views of 305.3M. Content styles are primarily archival clips and informational pieces rather than tutorials or vlogs, with uploads spanning new and restored historical footage and related educational materials, and an average of roughly 11K views per video.
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Targets archival and historical footage similar to PeriscopeFilm with strong overlap on search terms like railroad archive footage, hydroelectric power archival footage, and early computing footage, while the content match (73%) indicates a shared material focus but potentially different presentation style.
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Attracts viewers interested in archival motion pictures and transportation/history clips, aligning with PeriscopeFilm on searches such as archival motion pictures and transportation history footage, though content similarity is high (82%) suggesting similar but not identical video catalogs.
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Competes for audiences via educational film archives and railroad/hydroelectric/tech history queries, with search overlap (45%) indicating some shared queries but content (78%) shows a strong alignment with PeriscopeFilm’s archival educational material.
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Broad historical film clips channel competes on general historical footage searches, with substantial search overlap (37%) and moderate content similarity (67%), signaling shared clip-centric archival material but broader scope.
Content Landscape
Discovered competitors include Kinolibrary (84% match, 238K subscribers) and HuntleyFilmArchives (64% match, 103K subscribers) as the top two by match strength, with Charlie Dean Archives at 66% match and 74.4K subscribers also closely aligned. All three share overlap in queries such as railroad archive footage, hydroelectric power archival footage, and educational/archival film content, indicating competition in historical and industrial/technical footage libraries. PeriscopeFilm has 876K subscribers, significantly larger than Kinolibrary (0.238M), HuntleyFilmArchives (0.103M), and Charlie Dean Archives (0.074M), highlighting a substantial size advantage in the same niche.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which YouTube channels are most similar to PeriscopeFilm?
PeriscopeFilm's biggest competitors on YouTube are Kinolibrary (84% match, 238K subscribers), Charlie Dean Archives (66% match, 74.4K subscribers), and HuntleyFilmArchives (64% match, 103K subscribers). They share a focus on historical and archival footage, vintage film material, and stock footage similar to PeriscopeFilm.
What type of content does PeriscopeFilm make?
PeriscopeFilm creates documentary-style historical stock footage content, including WWII, Cold War, NASA, and other era clips, as seen in titles like 'Stock footage from Periscope Film Promo Reel' and themed segments such as 'ACCESS' and 'TOUR OF THE TURBO'. Uploads appear to be frequent (average around 11K views per video) with multiple recent videos listed and a roughly weekly to several videos per week cadence.
How do we determine which channels are similar to PeriscopeFilm?
We analyze PeriscopeFilm's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.
